lead wins florida. it s proportional again, so newt comes in second he ll have della gather. at the end ever the day you then get to february which is a bunch of caucuses and not any big states and gives you time to regroup and build an organization which beginning r-fnewt gingrich doesn t have and it gives romney time to readjust his machine. martha: we see who i nasty it gets between mitt romney and newt gingrich. there appears to be no loved lost. and you feel this continued searching for an anti-mitt romney candidate. you have this coalescing around newt gingrich which they ve had a tough time falling in love with but they love him in these debates, it s clear. he s a very intelligence man,
in south carolina that newt gingrich was concerned could inhibit his ability to cast himself as the alternate to romney, the conservative ante mit candidate. the evangelical christians, the traditional values voters of south carolina have bon less choice anone less noise and that may make it possible for newt gingrich to coalesce the vote behind him. santorum has significant momentum of his own and should not be counted out. he s worked hard in south carolina after his iowa now tie, the certification obviously said that santorum got more votes than mitt romney, although it s not minding. as a practical matter santorum won the expectation game in iowa that s what made him credible
feel they are slighted iowa. in the wee hours of january 4th when we reported the unofficial reports we explained there was a certification process that all the precincts should go through. it won t be a surprise to anyone that the process is going on for the last two weeks. in any race that is decided by hundreds of percentage points there is always room for human error. we had two pre paints in one countprecincts, there was an over vote for romney. a 54 was entered it should have been a four. a 44 was entered it should have been a 4. martha: we did outline those earlier in the show. we have campaign officials at our headquarters going through the form. it s as open and transparent. martha: the eight precinct
romney. he will join us now and talk about the unbelievable change of events in iowa and how that all works out. we ll go back to the rick perry announcement, huge news. rick perry governor of the biggest state in the nation, longest serving nation, had all the krao credentials people thought is out of the race. we ll be right back. here is the issue for us, as republicans we cannot fire our nominee in september, we need to know now. so i hope you ll put your tax records out there this week so the people of south carolina that take a look and decide if, you know, we ve got a flawed candidate or not. -one. -two.
country along the coast or would it be up state where it is more conservative, more evangelical? reporter: absolutely the up state, more conservative. that is where rick perry s base was. that is expected where he would do well. bill: that is where santorum could gain with a perry withdrawal? reporter: perry supporters were never mitt romney leaners. it is very clear what is left of the texas governor s support in the palmetto state is inclined to be choosing between santorum and gingrich. there is an awful lot of unresolved business on the campaign trail. revelations continue to come about mitt romney s wealth and he continues to play defense, not with standing origin of most of these criticisms being democratic national committee and not his actual republican rivals. newt gingrich is facing all kinds of last-minute problems. criticism by romney and conservatives by his attack on quote, free enterprise going after romney s bain capital days but also the possibilities one of